Letters to Regulators: Letter to FHFA in Response to Equitable Housing Finance Plans RFI
AFREF joined a letter to FHFA in response to the enterprise equitable housing finance plans request for input.
Category Archives: Letters to Regulators
Letters to Regulators: Letter to FHFA in Response to Equitable Housing Finance Plans RFI
AFREF joined a letter to FHFA in response to their request for input regarding the enterprises’ equitable housing finance plans.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to the Treasury/President’s Working Group on Stablecoin Regulation
AFREF submitted a letter to the Treasury today raising concerns that the President’s Working Group is considering recommending Congress create special bank charters to regulate stablecoins. We instead believe the President’s Working Group should clarify the existing authorities that each of the regulatory agencies have and call on those agencies to exercise their authorities now. We find this especially pertinent given the recent enforcement action brought Friday by the CFTC against Tether.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to CFPB Regarding Hidden Remittance Fees
AFR joined a letter to CFPB Director Chopra requesting that the Bureau address the significant problem of hidden remittance fees allowed under the current CFPB regulations.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on the Need for Pre-Foreclosure Protections in 2022
AFREF joined a letter to CFPB Director Rohit Chopra urging for pre-foreclosure protections in 2022 due to the on-going Covid-19 pandemic.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to CFPB Expressing Concerns About the Treatment of Earned Wage Access Products
AFREF joined a letter to CFPB Director Rohit Chopra expressing concerns about the treatment of earned wage access products.
Letters to Congress: Letter Calling for Homeownership Funding in the Build Back Better Budget Reconciliation Bill
AFR joined a letter to Congress urging for the highest possible amount of homeownership funding in the Build Back Better Budget Reconciliation Bill.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to Secretary Yellen on Repealing Treasury’s 2019 Guidance on SIFI Designation
AFREF and allies sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calling on her to rescind the 2019 guidance under the Trump Administration that made it unduly difficult to designate non-banks as Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs).
Letters to Regulators: Treasury Climate Finance Report
Americans for Financial Reform joined 38 organizations urging Secretary Yellen to produce a bold Treasury climate finance report. Climate change poses an existential threat to the economic security of households and communities across the nation and to the financial system. As the Chair of the FSOC, it is up to Secretary Yellen to lead the writing of a Treasury report that can serve as a comprehensive roadmap that recognizes the urgency and severity of the climate crisis, includes specific policies beyond assessment and disclosure, and encourages each of the independent agencies to use all available tools to mitigate climate risk and its drivers.
Letters to Regulators: Letter Urging HUD, VA, and USDA to Extend the Deadline for Borrowers to Start Forbearance Plans
AFREF joined a letter urging HUD, VA, and USDA to extend the September 30, 2021 deadline for borrowers to start forbearance plans due to COVID-19 hardships.